English

Noun

eptameride ‎(plural eptamerides)

1. (music, obsolete) Alternative spelling of heptameride
   • 1963, Scripta Mathematica, vol. 1, page 296, ISSN 0036-9713.

     Later he spoke of "subdividing each Eptameride into ten parts, called Decamerides." But he did not use this more subtle division in practice.

   • 1964, James Woodrow Krehbiel Harmonic Principles of Jean-Philippe Rameau and his Contemporaries, page 9, OCLC 1069357.

     The second contribution of Sauveur is the development of a more exact method of computing intervals based upon logarithmic numbers which he terms merides, eptamerides and decamerides.

   • 1991, Theoria, vol. 5-6, page 26, ISSN 1554-1312.

     The interval of the fifth, it will be recalled, contains 176 eptamerides or 25 merides (plus 1 eptameride).

   • 2004, J. Murray Barbour, Tuning and Temperament: A Historical Survey, page 122, ISBN 0486434060.

     The Merides were divided into seven parts called Eptamerides. For more subtle distinctions, Sauveur suggested using Decamerides, 10 of which comprised one Eptameride.